What’s your bracelet making story?
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DanceKnotz
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3 months ago by DanceKnotz
From your average spiral staircases to complex alpha with a color change almost every knot, there is a wide range of bracelets. Everyone, from beginner to moderator to administrator, please comment how you started making bracelets. I bet 90% started with Chinese staircases at summer camp, just like me. I was pretty young when I started, then I picked it up from just staircases and braids to finding written tutorials on the internet (for some reason I didn’t trust videos lol)…then I learned how to read patterns and *dIscOvErEd* Masha Knots, and the rest is history! How about you guys? 😄
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ArmletBean
Bracelet King
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3 months ago by ArmletBean
I started when my sister gave me a bracelet that was too small for her. Then I started making fishtails and braids and now I’m making patterns from here.
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Selah_Ross
Bracelet King
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3 months ago by Selah_Ross
i was on here, and enjoying the patterns, and my friend who got me on here got mad at me for not actually braceleting, thus i got into braceleting
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Grenda
Bracelet King
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3 months ago by Grenda
I started making just macrame bracelets when I was about 5 years old because my older sisters taught me how to make them. After a couple of years I started making more complex normals and learning how to read patterns from kinsey b’s tutorials. Then two years ago I discovered braceletbook and learned how to make alphas from Masha Knots tutorials.
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GiuseppeK
Bracelet King
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3 months ago by GiuseppeK
My favorite ex got me started at a relatively late stage in life (early 30s). Much as I wish it could've been otherwise, she usually wasn't there to give me any other guidance, so had to figure out most of it on my own. It would've been a basic chevron, and her keyring at the time was a metal loop with all the hideous aborted previous efforts of mine until I got it right. More than just about anything else, I wish she could see the monster she'd created now. |
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Regier
Bracelet King
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2 months, 4 weeks ago by Regier
My aunt gave me a bracelet kit for my birthday when I was 8. The kit came with string, an instruction book, and a bracelet wheel thingy. It took me a whole two years to figure out how to make a candy stripe bracelet from that book!!! 😂 Looking at the book now I’m wondering why it took me so long to figure that out. When I made all the patterns in the book and got bored of them, I started looking for more patterns to make. That’s when I found braceletbook. And now I have been making bracelets, off and on, for about 6-7 years now. It’s become one of my favorite hobbies, but it doesn’t top reading!
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skytech
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2 months, 4 weeks ago by skytech
I started when I was… 9 or so, so like a year ago, and I started with a zipper bracelet (like it’s just forward backward knots (and vice versa) onto base string but the knots are with two strings at a time, and then I did chevron and for some reason I can do up to 16 string patterns and I have NEVER EVER done a candy stripe? Idk why
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just_mere
Bracelet King
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2 months, 4 weeks ago by just_mere
I really wish I knew my exact story lol. But like every other kid, I learned the basic Chinese staircase, chevron, and candy stripe at camps. But I got really into Rainbow loom bracelets for a while, and stopped (as in, REALLLYYYY into them) making string ones. Discovered BraceletBook by some miracle (Pinterest I think?) and decided I needed to know everything I could possibly know and perfect my skills and become great ✨
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rz
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2 months, 3 weeks ago by rz
Met my bff for life at a camp and she taught me how to make a Chinese staircase. (Still have my og lol) and then I fell in love with candy stripes in the middle of math class and have been trying new things ever since!
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puggyz
Bracelet King
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2 months, 2 weeks ago by puggyz
In summer 2023 I was watching summer 2019 Vsco era videos and I thought chevron bracelets looked super cool. My sister had old embroidery floss so over the next day or so I was attempting to master the chevron. Then after that I thought myself how to read patterns and it escalated from there.
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willaroo
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2 months, 2 weeks ago by willaroo
i wanted to make a flower bracelet that i’d seen online and it was too hard for me, but i decided to try making other kinds of knotted bracelets instead so i looked up how to make friendship bracelets and made my first candy stripe from a tutorial! i’ve never actually made a chinese staircase. i looked up tulip bracelet patterns and found one on braceletbook and joined!! this was about a year and a half ago
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Ester_25OO
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2 months, 1 week ago by Ester_25OO
When I was about 9 or 10, my mom showed me how to make a stripe bracelet. I didn't really understand it and left it at that. Then I somehow came across a Czech YouTuber and learned it all from her.
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superme123
Bracelet King
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2 months, 1 week ago by superme123
Started with chinese staircase and candystripes at summer camp, but they never came out good. I wanted to learn how to properly make bracelets, and I stumbled upon Braceletbook. I watched Mashaknots's videos, and 2 years later, here I am as a bracelet king, hoping to become a Modereator soon.
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Paws14
Bracelet King
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2 months, 1 week ago by Paws14
I started gymnastics and I was wearing a bracelet made out of rubber bands, my coach said that it was very nice. Then later on, my friend gave me a candy stripe bracelet, so I started making bracelets from Masha knots videos.
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Paws14
Bracelet King
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2 months, 1 week ago by Paws14
That was just last year September
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Sophietje2
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2 months, 1 week ago by Sophietje2
It is so interesting to read all the stories! I got a blue french book for my birthday when i was 9 years old and made many bracelets from it. It got lost when i was moving house but a year and a half a go i found it again and it gave me back so many memories, i discovered this amazing online community i never new existed with so many more paterns and inspiration. I am very gratefull for that. ❤️
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imcoolasf
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2 months ago by imcoolasf
Just a couple of months ago!! I found a tutorial on Pinterest and just kinda started making them lol
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NMJewelry
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2 months ago by NMJewelry
We started making bracelets because we always saw them on tiktok. We love making jewelry so we decided to buy some strings and learn how to make them.
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BiancaMG
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1 month, 4 weeks ago by BiancaMG
I started making friendship bracelets for my friends, and when I was looking for new patterns to do, I found this website and now I use it for everything from wall-hangings to keychains
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GiuseppeK
Bracelet King
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1 month, 3 weeks ago by GiuseppeK
Not the manliest of pastimes, so going to have to start telling curious folks seeking explanation that when I was thawed out from cryo-prison, it seems all I want to do now is make bracelets. Then maybe I'll ask them in confidence if they can tell me how to use the three seashells in the bathroom. If they can pick up what I'd be puttin' down, I'd know I'm dealing with people of culture. 😎 |
